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  Synthesized Sounds and Fusion Friendships in Grimes and Janelle Monaé's "Venus Fly"

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  Christine Capetola The University of Texas at Austin

  January 25, 2016

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  Synthesized Sounds and Fusion Friendships in Grimes and Janelle Monaé's "Venus Fly" race pop music Janelle Monaé Grimes gender drum machine #squadgoals Curator's Note There’s something going on with female friendship in the indie pop s ...
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  One of the GRRRLS: Lizzo and the Feminist Potential of Musical Collaboration

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  Alyxandra Vesey University of Wisconsin-Madison

  January 26, 2016

  3 comments

  electrifying in demonstrating what’s possible when women think beyond the squad and present themselves as ...
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  Re: One of the GRRRLS: Lizzo and the Feminist Potential of Musical Collaboration

  Alyx, I’m so excited to see

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  Christine Capetola The University of Texas at Austin

  Tuesday, January 26, 2016 — 8:21 pm

  Alyx, I'm so excited to see you writing about Lizzo here! You point out a lot of important tensions in Lizzo's performance of "Ain't I": how to create something that everyone can join (I almost wrote "buy into") in a way ...
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  With Friends Like These: Female Intimacies and Animosities in HBO's Girls

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  Katherine J. Lehman Albright College

  January 27, 2016

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  With Friends Like These: Female Intimacies and Animosities in HBO's Girls HBO girls friendship #squadgoals Curator's Note When HBO’s Girls debuted, it depicted a privileged sisterhood. Not only were the stars elite white women, but they also sha ...
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  Re: Synthesized Sounds and Fusion Friendships in Grimes and Janelle Monaé's "Venus Fly"

  I don’t have much to add to

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  Alison Winch University of East Anglia, UK

  Wednesday, January 27, 2016 — 8:56 am

  exciting! I’m fascinated by the connections that you’re making between female friendship, cross-racial ...
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  ‘There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women’: Taylor Swift and Celebrity Feminist Friendship

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  Alison Winch University of East Anglia, UK

  January 28, 2016

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  ‘There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women’: Taylor Swift and Celebrity Feminist Friendship feminism female friendship celebrity Curator's Note Taylor Swift’s girlfriendships are central to her celebrity brand as well as he ...
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  Re: With Friends Like These: Female Intimacies and Animosities in HBO's Girls

  I’m torn between seeing this

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  Alison Winch University of East Anglia, UK

  Thursday, January 28, 2016 — 8:43 am

  I’m torn between seeing this clip – and the show as a whole – as deconstructing the wide range of ...
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  Re: ‘There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women’: Taylor Swift and Celebrity Feminist Friendship

  Thanks for this, Alison! I

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  Christine Capetola The University of Texas at Austin

  Thursday, January 28, 2016 — 11:03 pm

  of that, perhaps even a possible complication of this commodification... that can still get co-opted ...
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  David Simon's Housing Problems

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  Nathan Holmes Loyola University

  February 01, 2016

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  possiblity of meaning produced through contingent encounters; which is what integration--as policy and ...
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  HBO's Website Interprets David Simon's Treme

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  Ethan Tussey Georgia State University

  February 05, 2016

  life and life imitating art in a way that I thought was never possible." His ringing endorsements ...

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